Darrell

I disagree with you on that one, and think the 15-minute rule is a good thing. Do you ever bid on eBay auctions? There's a phenomenon called "sniping" when people will submit a bid at the very last instant, giving other interested parties no opportunity to respond. That 15-minute rule eliminates sniping. Higher sales prices are good for the site and good for the seller, and no one is forced to bid more than they're willing to pay. Just my two cents.

True enough, but who is going to decipher which calls get a cop and which get a mental health specialist? 911 dispatchers have a tough-enough job, but it's been my experience (25 years as a volunteer fireman / EMT) that most of them don't have the education to make that kind of call. It was also my experience that a significant proportion of the calls to which I was dispatched were not exactly as described by the dispatcher. For example, one call was for a gas station fire and it turned out that a semi-truck had a smoking brake. Remember that the dispatcher is just relaying information given to him over the telephone, the dispatcher hasn't had a chance to personally evaluate the situation. Whenever I was dispatched to any kind of potentially violent situation the police were dispatched at the same time. Believe me, if I was going into a domestic violence situation, or to one where someone was threatening or had attempted suicide, I wanted the cops there with me. Ideally there would be a way to know when a police response is required and when some other response would be better. But idealism has to take a backseat to realism in most situations that require a 911 response. It's nice to sit in your armchair and think of ways to improve the system, it's a lot tougher to implement those ideas in system that requires immediate responses to dangerous situations.

So with two years to think it over, would you have still chased the thieves, knowing what kind of damage would result?

I just ordered 1000 30- Carbine projectiles. Get em while they're there!

And just how much play will the MSM give race? I had to go to InfoWars to even see what the assailants race is. Personally, I don't care what his race is vis the crime, but I'm getting tired of seeing "white supremacy" when something like Rittenhouse happens, and crickets in a case like this.

Actually, he WAS charged, tried, and found not-guilty. (I understand the quote came from Maria Shriver.)

Of course that's true. Dickens spoke of it in some of his novels, and there were plenty of pamphlets printed before and during the revolution that told a single side of the story. William Randolph Hearst practically invented "yellow journalism" and made a fortune at it. But what we're seeing now seems different, probably because the internet makes it so easy to spread half-truths and lies. I could not care less what Alyssa Milano or high-school-drop-out Cher think about politics, but they've become loud voices for leftist policies, and have outsized influence. I think the scope of what we're seeing today, national news media telling outright lies about people or policies, IS unique, and worrisome.

The single most disturbing thing about the reaction of the liberal elite is that they seem to want to abandon our system of trial by jury. Mayor De Blasio of New York City called the verdict a miscarriage of justice. It seems that many on the left want trial by public opinion rather than a jury trial. Since the results of this trial went against their wishes, the trial was unjust. We're seeing more and more of this, with people being pilloried in the press and by elected officials who are supposed to uphold the constitution. I find it frightening.

Same here. I remember back in the 70's people would react to the weakened live virus that they used, but modern vaccines don't use live virus anymore. One might get a variety of influenza that isn't covered by the vaccine, but that could happen with or without the shot. It seems like great insurance to me.

She actually played a little bit this morning. I brought her a racquetball, bounced it on the driveway a bit, then tossed it for her. She tossed it around a bit herself, but got tired pretty quickly. I could tell she wanted to be friendly this morning, she bounced back and forth and even put a paw on her head, but still won't let me pet her. My wife and I sat on the deck and she got close enough to sniff at my wife's shoes. I'm pretty sure she'll come around.

Yeah, she eats like she's been starved, too! Actually, this afternoon she slowed down a little and actually left some kibble in the bowl. I think she was dehydrated, too. She's showing a bit more energy today than she did at first. I'm fairly sure she has fleas, as she bites at herself quite bit, but I can't do anything about that until she lets me touch her. I ordered a dog house for her. I can see that her adopting me is going to cost four or five hundred bucks by the time I get her shots and have her spayed, if she's not already.

Day before yesterday I woke up to find a skinny, collarless dog sitting on my porch looking pretty miserable. Soft hearted (of soft headed) that I am, I fed her and I suppose she figures that's an invitation to move in. One of my neighbors is a hound hunter, and he stopped by and told me that he'd seen this dog 15 miles away in the Catoosa a day before she showed at my place, and he identified her as a Mountain Cur. He conjectures that some hunter was dissatisfied with her for whatever reason, and took off her collar and set her on her own. What a scum bag, if that's true! She seems pretty calm and friendly, but she's also very cautious. She'll gently take food from my fingers, but won't let me touch her. Unless I'm offering food she stays five or six feet away. We've gone for a couple of woods walks, and she'll stay right with me, keeping that few feet of distance. So... for the dog lovers among you who might know something about curs: Is there anything more I can do to get her to trust me? I sit and talk with her, and she walks with me wherever I go outside, but she's shy. She doesn't cower at all, but she moves away if I try to get close. Is there a way to tell if she's been spayed? Is it common to spay hunting dogs around here? Does this breed generally make a good pet? We have indoor cats, and this dog will live outside, and there are no kids around. And we're on 20 acres, so she has a bit of space. The good news is that she's not pooped on my lawn yet, so that's one big check mark in her favor!

I'm intrigued by EV's, and even considered buying a used Leaf some time ago. But on the balance, I decided it wouldn't work for me. The used Leaf I looked at was pretty inexpensive, considering what nice condition the car was in. But a little research showed me why. The battery was reaching its age limit, and replacing the battery would cost about what the car was worth. Not such a bargain after all. I tend to keep my vehicles. My pickup is a 2002 and I have two 2000 cars and one from 1972 (a 240Z). I don't expect to ever replace my pickup unless I wreck it, and both the cars are well-maintained with low mileage. Electric vehicles with limited battery life mean that you're pretty much stuck trading it in after five or so years. I've also noticed that most of the repairs I make on my oil-burners are electrical-related. Things like failed o2 sensors or switches. Electronics has become more and more reliable, but the more bells and whistles on a car, the greater the likelihood of failure. I'm a motorcycle nut, too, and can't imagine using an electric bike for anything more than commuting. The range is just too limited to suit me.

I read one account that said Binger was pointing that rifle "toward" the jury. Too bad the jurors didn't dive for the floor or shout for him not to point the rifle that way.

The frequency is in the two meter band, and accesses a repeater. The offset is a difference between the receive and transmit frequencies, and the tone is something that tells the repeater that you're talking to it. If you transmit on the repeater's frequency without the tone, the repeater won't open. Two meter radios are often very low power hand-held "walkie talkies" with limited line-of-sight range. Repeaters are typically located on a hill or tall building and by using a repeater one can communicate over greater distances. The repeater literally repeats what it hears in near real-time. To the users it's virtually undetectable.

KC7TEN The call sign was assigned while I lived in WA, but I won't change it to a 4 now that I'm in TN. Extra license from back when code was required, but I've not set up since moving here. I was working on clearing an area to put up an end-fed wire antenna this morning.

Sorry, I missed a key. It was H110, which as of now is still offered in-stock.

Of course this isn't just a FedEx problem. A few months ago I sold a set of reloading dies to another TGO member and shipped them USPS to his home in the Nashville area. Tracking showed that the dies were delivered, but the buy never received them. He had a video recording of his mailbox that showed no package delivered on the day in-question. So I filed a claim, explaining the whole situation, that tracking showed delivery but that it actually was not. The claim was denied because tracking showed the package delivered. I refunded the buyer's money, which wasn't a lot, but it still ticked me off.

Both parties suck, so far as I'm concerned. Be that as it may, something's gonna have to give. We can't keep spending ourselves into bottomless debt. We need oil until a better, less-expensive alternative is available. I want food on the grocery store shelves and I don't like spending $8 a pound for bacon.

Seems to me that the big driver is the cost of fuel. Gasoline is up nearly 50% from a year ago, and the energy secretary seems to think the idea of opening up more drilling here is funny. The current administration thinks that the environmental benefits of reducing oil consumption outweighs the hardship caused by heavy inflation. They're even talking of closing another pipeline. Every item you see on a store shelf was delivered by a oil-burning vehicle. If the price of fuel keeps going up, so will the price of food, clothing, hardware and everything else. There's going to be a lot of unnecessary suffering this winter, I fear.

I've got to admit that I'd forgotten that one!

OO RAH! Semper Fi! This is an RF4-B sitting on the catapult of the USS Midway in the South China see in 1976. Sorry for the poor quality, scanned from an old slide.

I load mixed cases that I've picked up at the range, and have never had any difficulty with them. Be that as it may, if the dealer told you this was Federal ammo, he lied to you. It's not legal to advertise an item as being brand-name when it isn't, but you wouldn't have a leg to stand on as the box isn't a Federal box. Chalk it up as a lesson learned. Do you really have three different calibers? A lot of us think of 5.56 and .223 as the same. (Defender's comment noted.) I couldn't read the third case you pictured, but the base does look a little smaller. I know I'd be pretty ticked to buy a box of .223 ammo and find some oddball rounds in there, especially at today's prices.